WaltherPark

WaltherPark is an urban redevelopment project in Bolzano, designed by architect David Chipperfield. It focuses on the renovation and enhancement of a district situated between the train station, Piazza Giuseppe Verdi, and Walther von der Vogelweide Square. Il The mixed-use complex extends over four underground floors and and nine above-ground levels, housing a shopping center (31000 m²),aa food court(4000 m²), and residential units11200 m²), office (11000 m²) a Hotels (5400 m²), as well as creating a new urban district with green areas, squares, and pedestrian zones.

The Bim-Lab.net team was responsible for modeling the mechanical systems, working alongside the executing company Panzeri S.p.A. in the development of the construction project. In addition to creating models and detailed drawings for production, our role included overseeing the as-built phase of the project. We collaborated with on-site designers to optimize the system layouts from the executive project, resolving clashes with already constructed structures in order to prevent future issues for installers working within such a dense network of different systems. Our collaboration focused on a large portion of the underground floors of the buildings under construction. These areas, housing technical rooms and larger ducts, are typically the most involved in the installation of mechanical systems in a project of this scale. Modeling within a Revit environment, coordinated across the various disciplines, allowed for shorter construction and installation times. It made it possible to account for even millimeter-level differences and to identify significant clashes with the existing structure and between systems well before reaching the construction site. The daily collaboration with designers and site technicians made it possible, after the modeling phase, to manufacture and install even very long sections of system ductwork in a short time, while minimizing potential errors. The greatest satisfaction for our team was seeing, week after week through on-site photographic documentation, the systems being built just days after they had been laid out in our 3D model. This is tangible proof that the BIM methodology, when applied throughout the production process—from design to execution—offers tremendous value and represents a significant step forward for the future of design.